Editor’s Note: Guest blogger Randall Ross, proprietor of rare book store Modernism101.com, has blogged for 20×49.com on topics including architecture and public art. His latest post is about a popular local event, the annual Centenary…

As part of the New Deal of 1933, the Public Works Administration (PWA) authorized and financed construction of over 1,700 Public Building projects between 1933 and 1939. The ideology behind this massive building boom was…